I described it cryptic and funny, but Julian Assange is journalist for Wikileaks.

Let me explain the story a bit:
After releasing the documents about the warcrimes, the US intelligence started a campaign against Assange.
One famous video was "Collateral Murder" that showed mercenaries murdering a journalist.

When Julian was in the UK, Sweden was accusing him of a rape, where the victim stated that there was none. But there was an extradition claim none-the-less. Assange already saw this as a spy-game and had fled into the embassy of Ecuador.
There he waited for the false claims to wear off, but they never did.
The claim stayed as resisting against arrest.
After years of staying in a small room, under pressure from the US, Ecuador let the UK police in and let them arrest Julian.
He was arrested under all kinds of false premises, against any law in the UK.
They also have been using psychological torture on him, probably in a process of making him crazy.
The US had already made claims about crimes that never happened, and still doing that.
For what he really did, he should get awards. But the US wants him to die in prison.

Yet, he was just being a journalist releasing documents that every new-agency should have done.
I came across wikileaks and Julian Assange, when I started doubting the reasons for going into Iraq.